Research Guides: French Studies: Getting Started

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CAIRN
This open-access database includes fulltext to many French-language journals in the humanities and social sciences.

JSTOR
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. WSU has perpetual access to the Arts and Sciences I-XV, Hebrew Journals and Sustainability Collections. JSTOR invites you to explore an AI Interactive Research Tool in beta. Developed in collaboration with the academic community, this tool employs AI and other technologies to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

MLA International Bibliography
MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (online) is the largest and most comprehensive database covering current scholarship in the modern languages, literatures, and folklore. MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (online) corresponds to the printed annual bibliography of the Modern Language Association.

PASCAL and FRANCIS Bibliographic Databases (-1972)
FRANCIS focuses on the human and social sciences and PASCAL has bibliographic references in science, technology, and medicine. This searchable archive of the two databases combined indexes articles through 1972. You will need to search Summon/Catalog for Wayne State's holdings of these journals. Many of the articles from these European academic journals will need to be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Persee
Open access articles in the sciences and humanities

Project Muse
A searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.
ARTFL project, University of Chicago
Full-text retrieval databases of classical French writings, reference resources, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, periodicals, pamphlets, and ARTFL newsletters. Databases include literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises. Coverage starts with 12th century.

British Humanities Index
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities.

Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
Doctoral dissertations (and some masters theses) from all over the world. Full text frequently available. Excellent bibliographies.

FIAF international film archive database
Contains: International index to film periodicals, 1972- International index to television periodicals, 1979- List of periodicals indexed Treasures from the film archives International directory of film and TV documentation collections and Bibliography of FIAF members' publications.
Historical abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. Coverage is identical to the expanded edition of the CD-ROM version.
Humanities & social sciences index retrospective, 1907-1984.
This database offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. Coverage also includes content from H.W. Wilson's International Index. Combine this valuable resource with other Wilson databases such as Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text for a century of research in hundreds of journals.